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In 1887, John Bartholomew's Gazetteer of the British Isles described London Docks like this:
London Docks, eccl. dist., St George in the East and Shadwell pars., Middlesex, pop. 7548; the London Docks, at Wapping, were opened in 1805, and contain 90 ac.
This is the only descriptive gazetter entry we have found, but you may be able to find further references to London Docks by doing a full-text search here.
Sorry, but no mentions of this place can be found.
This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:
Place | Mentioned in Travel Writing | Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer |
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Wapping | 16 | 2 |
St George in the East | 0 | 2 |
St Katherine | 0 | 2 |
Shadwell | 2 | 2 |
Rotherhithe | 0 | 2 |
Bermondsey | 1 | 2 |
Horsleydown | 0 | 2 |
Tower of London | 0 | 6 |
Aldgate | 0 | 2 |
Whitechapel | 7 | 2 |
Ratcliffe | 8 | 2 |
Spitalfields | 12 | 5 |
Mile End New Town | 0 | 2 |
South Bermondsey | 0 | 1 |
Stepney | 5 | 2 |
Limehouse | 10 | 2 |
Norton Folgate | 0 | 2 |
Borough | 0 | 2 |
Tower Hamlets | 0 | 2 |
Southwark | 44 | 6 |